Author: David Dahlem
Date: 06:48:24 08/13/03
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On August 13, 2003 at 09:04:07, David Dahlem wrote: >On August 12, 2003 at 18:12:40, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>First of all a clarification, I did not say that my machine got infected when >>playing on playchess.com (read again my message). For the record I am a long >>time user of playchess.com and can say only good words about it. >> >>Now to the warning: >> >>If you have up-to-date anti-virus definitions, and never open an unknown binary >>file (exactly like me), you are still vulnerable (alas, I learned it too late)! >>This was the first time a machine of mine got infected with virus, because this >>is the first known widespread virus which gets into your machine _without_ your >>intervention! >> >>see >>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html >> >>I don't remember any such grave security problem in the history of Windows... >> >>So, I *strongly* recommend all Windows users to download the latest Windows >>patch from http://www.windowsupdate.com/ > >At >http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MSBLAST.A >I see this description of this virus: > >"TrendLabs has received several infection reports of this new worm, which >exploits the RPC DCOM BUFFER OVERFLOW. This vulnerability in a Windows >Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Remote Procedure Call (RPC) interface >allows an attacker to gain full access and execute any code on a target machine, >leaving it compromised. This worm has been observed to continuously scan random >IP addresses and send data to vulnerable systems on the network using port 135. >This worm runs on and is able to propagate into Windows NT, 2000, and XP >systems." > >According to this, all windows systems are not vulnerable? > >Regards >Dave The AOL Anti-Virus Center also says that only Windows NT, 2000, and XP users are vulnerable to this worm. Regards Dave
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